As we found later, this was most likely due to an MTU misconfiguration: hosts' interfaces set to mtu=9000 while switches not fully setup for it - after getting them properly setup, this deployment went ok.
Nevertheless, having meaningful messages at juju log would have helped a lot, warnings/errors like e.g. 'read timeout from tcp connection'.
As we found later, this was most likely due to an MTU misconfiguration: hosts' interfaces set to mtu=9000 while switches not fully setup for it - after getting them properly setup, this deployment went ok.
Nevertheless, having meaningful messages at juju log would have helped a lot, warnings/errors like e.g. 'read timeout from tcp connection'.